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Alliance of American Football – Ready or Not is HERE!

Here comes SPRING football! Ready or not, we have the first of two springs football leagues about to begin. The first league is the Alliance of American Football (AAF) league starting play this February, a week after the National Football League’s Super Bowl LIII game. The second league is the reboot of the 2001 XFL league, starting in 2020 (more on this league later). The co-founders’ Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian objectives is to create a league to attract football talent from among the wealth of high level players who have fail to be on a NFL team.

Birmingham Iron Team History

The Birmingham Iron is a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama and are charter members of the Alliance of American Football. The Iron were the 7th of 8 teams announced for the new league, which is set to play in February 2019.

Established2019

CityBirmingham

League History2019 – Present / Alliance of American Football

Team History2019 – Present / Birmingham Iron

NicknameIron – Pays tribute to the hard working steel workers who provided the Iron that fueled the industrial revolution. The people of Birmingham are tough, hard working, passionate, strong and dependable, attributes that will quickly become synonymous with the Birmingham Iron.